Some people spend a lifetime searching for it, while others live in it.

Happiness is everyone's main goal, but few know how to find and appreciate it. For some it is in achieving a goal or dream, for others it is an unattainable peak, and still others find it in everything in their path. 

We have collected 15 of the best quotes about happiness spoken and written by celebrities over the years:

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day"
- Douglas Adams

"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love"
- Mother Teresa

"From now on, i only want to collect moments of happiness"
- Stendhal

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be"
- Abraham Lincoln

"The purpose of life is to be happy"
- Dalai Lama

"I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health"
- Voltaire

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination"
- Buddha

"A person who's happy will make others happy"
- Anne Frank

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for"
- Alan K. Chalmers

"People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness"
- Abhysheq Shukla

"Happiness is the only thing we can give without having"
- Carmen Sylva

"Happiness is a property of character. Some have it in their nature to wait all the time, others continuously look for it, and others find it everywhere."
- Elchin Safarli

"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And those who take without forgetting"
- Elizabeth Bibesco

"Happiness is when what you think, say and do is in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"If each of us can make the other person happy, at least one, everyone on earth will be happy"
- Yuri Nikulin